Sky Dancer
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I'd like to meet you. I know you exist.
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Yes you do, you just insult them so they ignore you.
I'd like to meet you. I know you exist.
I'd like to meet you. I know you exist.
Working to Reduce Poverty in America - Catholic Charities USA
Frankly, I hate to see Christ's teachings misused by the right wing. Coulter says liberalism is a godless religion, I think she's wrong.
There are liberal Christians. I just don't meet them on forums.
Frankly, I hate to see Christ's teachings misused by the right wing. Coulter says liberalism is a godless religion, I think she's wrong.
There are liberal Christians. I just don't meet them on forums.
You first need to ground and reexamine your own findings Sky. Try finding a Neutral Plane that does not disturb what you are trying to study. Lose the Supposition.
Yes you do, you just insult them so they ignore you.
I want to talk to some LIBERAL Christians, not right wingers.
Yes you do, you just insult them so they ignore you.
I want to talk to some LIBERAL Christians, not right wingers.
See what I mean?
I am more liberal than most liberals on this board. Yet, because I do not fit your definition of liberal, and because I am a Christian, you respond with insults.
I want to talk to some LIBERAL Christians, not right wingers.
See what I mean?
I am more liberal than most liberals on this board. Yet, because I do not fit your definition of liberal, and because I am a Christian, you respond with insults.
Be here now. Do you want to talk now or not? Tell me about why you think you're a liberal.
Yes you do, you just insult them so they ignore you.
I want to talk to some LIBERAL Christians, not right wingers.
Sky Dancer, it might help if you explain what you mean by "liberal." Since you're speaking of religion, you might mean religiously liberal, or you might mean politically liberal. Catholic Charities isn't religiously liberal, but it IS politically liberal, as in many ways is the whole Catholic Church.
What I mean by religiously liberal is non-authoritarian in terms of doctrine and spiritual practice. And having said that, I need to clarify that a church can be non-authoritarian in terms of its own hierarchy but still very authoritarian in terms of scripture interpretation and doctrine. A good example of that is the Southern Baptist Convention, which is decentralized and opposed to any sort of central authority, and also, atypically for Evangelicals, very firmly committed to separation of church and state, but also one of the most rigidly doctrinaire Christian sects in existence.
A liberal Christian church or individual tends to:
1. Reject the idea of Biblical inerrancy.
2. Place emphasis on love, good works, and personal experience of God rather than belief, obedience, or following rules.
3. Mean by "faith" something closer to "hope" than to "belief"
4. Think of non-Christian religions as alternate and equally-valid paths to God, rather than as heresies or infidelisms.
5. Not believe in Hell, and have a non-standard idea of Heaven.
6. Be more concerned with imitating Christ than with worshiping him.
Political liberalism, of course, means the things we commonly mean by the word on political discussion boards like this.
The two types of liberalism are quite distinct. As noted above, the Catholic Church is in some ways politically liberal. Its doctrine holds that society has a responsibility to take care of the poor and provide for its weakest members. It condemns greed as a deadly sin. It is highly skeptical of war, and condemns the aggressor in war. But it is about as far from religiously liberal as any Christian denomination in existence.
If you mean religious liberals, they do exist and can be pointed out to you. (I am not one, not because I'm not religiously liberal but because I'm not Christian.)
See what I mean?
I am more liberal than most liberals on this board. Yet, because I do not fit your definition of liberal, and because I am a Christian, you respond with insults.
Be here now. Do you want to talk now or not? Tell me about why you think you're a liberal.
I do not think I am a liberal, I know you are not one.
There are liberal Christians. I just don't meet them on forums.
I'd like to meet you. I know you exist.
Be here now. Do you want to talk now or not? Tell me about why you think you're a liberal.
I do not think I am a liberal, I know you are not one.
I am definitely a liberal. You are not.
you are partly correct !! what you should have said is there is nothing liberal about charities !!I'd like to meet you. I know you exist.
Working to Reduce Poverty in America - Catholic Charities USA
This is not a Christian liberal.
Nothing liberal about Catholic Charities.